STOCK PRICES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17995, 4 November 1926, Page 7

STOCK PRICES.

SUMMARY OF YESTERDAY’S SALE. The entry of.fat cattle at the double market at Addington yesterday totalled 620 head compared with 550 last week. For a double sale the entry was not too large. On the whole the quality was good, prime drafts coming : from Southland, Otago, and Banks Pen- j insula. There was a good showing of , prime medium weight beef. The sale opened with a much better demand than last week, and with prices up by i fully 30s a head. This higher level was maintained until near the end of the sale, when competition slackened , S and prices eased by about 10s a head on opening rates. Good class medium weight cattle met with the best demand. Prices a 1001 b were:—Extra prime medium weight beef to 445; prime medium weight 38s 6d to 41s; i heavy weight 35s to 37s 6d: best heifer beef 35s 6d t 0,415; good cow beef 36s to 395; medium quality steer beef 32s to 35s and rough down to 28s. There was a very heavy yarding of fat sheep. It filled between fifteen and sixteen races and the overflow had to be accommodated in the lamb pens. There were drafts forward from various parts of Canterbury and also from Southland and Otago. Some of the best sheep came from the south. At the start of the sale prices were on a par with those ruling a week ago, and for a time there was an improving tendency. Towards the end, however, the demand became less keen, and prices eased to the extent of about 2s a head on the values ruling earlier in the market. Over the last race some passings were made. Taking the sale as a whole, however, prices did not show’ much variation from those of a week ago. The entry of spring lambs numbered 670 head. This number was not too large for a double market and the sale was a keen one throughout. All decently finished lambs made prices from 3s to 4s a head in advance of late

rates, and values per lb were from lid to 12d. The demand for store sheep was a good deal freer than last week, though shorn wethers did not sell very well, and a good many passings were made in this class. Ewes and lambs and hoggets were about Is a head better than at the previous sale. Only a small number of store cattle were penned. The demand for fairly forward sorts was active. Most of the dairy cattle yarded were of a nondesscript character, but still they sold well at prices equal to the improved ones •of last week. There was a large yard- , ing of vealers, but many of them were - I quite unfit for the purpose of butchers. , The number of killable sorts was not equal to requirements and for this class prices were better than last week, j The entry of porkers was in excess even of the requirements of a double market. Still, for the greater part of the sale, they sold on a par with last week, but, in the final stages, there -was a distinct easing. Baconers, on the ■ other hand, opened slackly, but the demand for them improved as the sale went on. Only a medium sized entry jof store __ pigs was offered. They met : with active competition and made better prices than last week. Following are the ranges of values:— FAT CATTLE. Extra, heavy bullocks to £2O 7s 6d. Prime heavy steers £l6 to £lB 10s. Prime medium weight steers £l4 30s to £l7. Medium quality steers £32 to £34. Light steers £9 to £ll of. Extra prime heifers to £l4 17s 6d. Prime heifers £ll 10s to £l3 las. Ordinary heifers £8 10s to £ll. Extra prime cows to £l4 7s 6d. Prime cows £9 to £ll 15s. Medium cows £7 to £8 15s. Light and aged cows £4 35a to £6 15s. STORE CATTLE. Good fresh cows to £5 10s. Medium quality cows, £2 10s to £3 10s. Inferior cows, 30s to £2. Yearling steers and heifers, 31s 6d. DAIRY CATTLE. Best second, third and fourth calvers, springing £7 to £9 10s. Medium sorts, £5 to £6 15s. Inferior sorts, £3 10s to £4 10s. Springing heifers, £3 10s to £7 10s. Old cows in profit, 35s to £3. VEALERS. Good runners to £B. Medium runners, £6 to £fi 15s. Good calvers, £5 Bs to £5 15s. Medium calves, £4 to £5. Inferior calves, 36s to 30s. FAT SHEEP. Extra prime wethers to 47s lOd. Prime wethers, 37s to 41s. Medium wethers, 34s 3d to 365. Light wethers, 32s to 33s 9d.

Extra prime shorn wethers to 42s 6d. Prime shorn wethers, 31s to 35s 3d. Medium and light shorn wethers, 23s 6d to 2.Ss fid. Extra prime ewes to 39s 4d. Prime ewes, 31s to 345. Medium ewes. 28s to 30s 9d. Light ewes, 23s 6d to 26s 9d. Extra prime shorn ewes to 32s 7d. Prime shorn ewes, 26s to 29s lOd. Medium and light shorn ewes, 20s fid to 25s Sd. Prime woolly hoggets, 30s to 34s Id. SPRING LAMBS. Extra prime lambs 36s 6d to SSs 4d. Prime lambs 30s to 355. Medium lambs 26s 6d to 29s 6d. Light lambs 25s to 26s 3d. STORE SHEEP. Aged half-bred ewes with fair In mbs ,3 4s fid to 16s. Aged three-quarter-bred ewes with, fair lambs 14s to 15s Sd. Inferior *Lged half-bred ewes with lambs 10s to 13s fid. Inferior aged cross-bred ewes with lambs 12s to 13s 9d. Extra good Corrjedale ewes hoggvts 46s 6d. Corriedale ew3 hoggets 35s to 3fis fid. Good cross-bred wether hoggets 22s to 25s 9d. Half-bred wether hoggets 23s to 2is 6d. Cull half-bred wether hoggets 21s to 22s 6d. Two-toothed shorn wethers 1 fis 4«1. Four and six-toothed half-bred woolly wethers 26s to 28s 6d. Two and four-toothed half-bred shorn wethers 225. PIGS. Choppers £2 13s 6d to £B. Light baconers £3 10s to £4. Heavy baconers £4 10s to £5 3 os. Extra heavy baconers to £6. Average price per pound 7d to Bd. Light porkers 4Ss to 645. Heavy porkers 57s fid to 60s 6d. Extra heavy porkers to 725. Average price per pound SJd to 9d. Weaners 28s to 30s. Rwst weaners to 37s 6d. Small stores 40s to 445. Medium stores 45s to 50s.